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Harbourline Group: Cloud Migration Readiness

A fictional company is moving its work-management platform from self-hosted servers to the cloud. Rate the evidence for each readiness dimension and see what still stands between the team and a safe cutover.

Built for: CTOs and transformation leads

Synthetic demonstration. Independent demonstration. The organisation, project details, budgets, people, dashboards and outcomes shown are fictional or synthetic. No employer or client-owned materials have been reproduced. Illustrative outputs are not actual client results.

  • • Generic, fictional migration; no vendor-specific procedure.
  • • Ratings 0–4 describe evidence, not effort or confidence.
  • • Weights reflect typical cutover impact and are illustrative.
  • • This score is never sufficient to approve a real production migration.

43%

Weighted readiness

No-go

Provisional guidance

2

Critical blockers

11

Evidence items outstanding

Rating definitions (0–4)
  • 0 · No evidence — Not started or no artefact exists.
  • 1 · Planned — Approach described; no evidence produced yet.
  • 2 · Partial — Some evidence exists; material gaps remain.
  • 3 · Substantial — Evidence covers most scope; minor gaps with owners.
  • 4 · Complete & approved — Full evidence reviewed and signed off by the approver.

Data & records (critical)

Approver: Data owner · weight 3

2/4

Integration inventory

Approver: Integration lead · weight 2

2/4

Identity, access & security (critical)

Approver: Security lead · weight 3

1/4

Test evidence

Approver: QA lead · weight 2

3/4

Change & communications

Approver: Change manager · weight 1

2/4

Cutover & rollback (critical)

Approver: Programme sponsor · weight 3

1/4

Hypercare & operational support

Approver: Service owner · weight 1

2/4

Readiness report

Provisional guidance: No-go · 43% weighted readiness

Critical dimensions below "Partial": Identity, access & security, Cutover & rollback.

This guidance is illustrative. A real production migration needs a formal go/no-go decision by accountable approvers using verified evidence.

Risk-ranked issues

  1. 01Identity, access & security — rated 1/4, gap score 9. Accountable: Security lead.
  2. 02Cutover & rollback — rated 1/4, gap score 9. Accountable: Programme sponsor.
  3. 03Data & records — rated 2/4, gap score 6. Accountable: Data owner.
  4. 04Integration inventory — rated 2/4, gap score 4. Accountable: Integration lead.
  5. 05Test evidence — rated 3/4, gap score 2. Accountable: QA lead.
  6. 06Change & communications — rated 2/4, gap score 2. Accountable: Change manager.
  7. 07Hypercare & operational support — rated 2/4, gap score 2. Accountable: Service owner.

Outstanding evidence

  • • Attachment and history migration tested (Data & records · Data owner)
  • • Data retention rules mapped (Data & records · Data owner)
  • • Cloud equivalents or rebuilds confirmed (Integration inventory · Integration lead)
  • • SSO and provisioning tested (Identity, access & security · Security lead)
  • • Permission model mapped and reviewed (Identity, access & security · Security lead)
  • • Security review completed (Identity, access & security · Security lead)
  • • Defect backlog triaged (Test evidence · QA lead)
  • • Training materials published (Change & communications · Change manager)
  • • Cutover runbook rehearsed (Cutover & rollback · Programme sponsor)
  • • Rollback criteria and owner agreed (Cutover & rollback · Programme sponsor)
  • • Support handover criteria defined (Hypercare & operational support · Service owner)

Cutover checklist

  • ☐ Change freeze confirmed with all integration owners
  • ☐ Final delta migration and reconciliation sign-off
  • ☐ Go/no-go meeting held with named approvers present
  • ☐ Rollback trigger, decision owner and time limit confirmed
  • ☐ Communications sent: before, during and after cutover
  • ☐ Hypercare rota live with escalation path

Rules

Readiness = Σ(rating × weight) ÷ Σ(4 × weight). No-go if any critical dimension (data, identity/security, cutover/rollback) is below 2. Conditional if any dimension is below 3 or readiness is under 75%. Otherwise provisional go.

Synthetic demonstration report — Harbourline Group is fictional. No employer or client material is reproduced.

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